Cuff-protector.



PAIBNTED MAY 5, 1903;

' M. P. VUOASSOVIGH.

01m PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 24, 1907.

" M; (ah-( MICHEL P. VUCASSOVICH, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

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Specificationof Letters Iatent.

Efatented May 5, 1908.

i a lication filed December 24, 1907. Serial name.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHEL P. Vuonsso- VICH, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented oer tain newand useful Improvements in Cuff- Proteotors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to protectors adapted to be applied to the outer ends of shirt ends, and particularly those which are connected by double or two-heeded buttons, the heads of which are connected by a link or bar ex! tending across the s )ace between two op 0.- site buttonholes in the cutl, such buttons eing usuallyknown as link buttons.

' The invention has forits object to rovide a protector of this character adapterFto bestride the outer end of the cult", and to engage the cross bar or link oi the button in such manner that the protector will be securely held in engagement with the end by the button link or bar.

The invention consists in the improved device which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,-Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my mproved oufi protector. Fig. 2 re presents an end view of a cuff and a link button connecting the end portions of the same. Fig. 3 represents an end View showing the protector applied to {he cuff, the latter being shown by dotted mes.

44 oi Fig. 3. ig. 5 represents a vievf'of the inner side of the protector, the latter b6' ing shown as partially straightened out.

The. same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures. v l My improved protector is coin osed of two connected flaps, viz an outer ap 2 and an inner flap 3, saidflaps being united-by a neck 4, the flaps and the neck being preferably composed of a suitably stiff and resili ent material, such as sheet celluloid. .The protector is molded so that its end portions normally tend to spring inwardly toward each other, a cud-receiving space being formed between the flaps.

The end portions of.-; tl1e inner flap 3 are provided with Fig. 4 represents a section on line means for engaging the bar or link 8 which connects the two heads 9 9 of a link button adapted to secure an ordinary shirt cuff 10.

The said engaging means are preferably two notches 12 12, formed in the endportions of the inner flap, the form of said end portions and notches being such that when the pro tector is applied to the cuff 10, the notches 12 en 'age .t 4. T e neck ortion of the protector is e bar or link-8, as shown in-Fig;

formed to over ang the .notches 1 2 atthe ends of the protector, so that the ends oft-he neck portion extend beyond the ends of. the

cuff, as shown in Figs.- 3 aud t. The inner flap is preferably provided with a central notch 13 in its lower portion, said notch par tially subdividing the flap into lobes, and enabling the inner surface of to cufi".

I claim:

1; A cut? protector comprisin connected outer and inner flaps formed to estride the outer end of a con, the end portions of the m} ner flap havin means for engaging the link or bar of a dou le cuff button.

2. A cuff protector comprisin connected.

outer and inner flaps, formed to bestride the the inner do to conform closely to outer end of a end, the inner-flap having notches in its end portions formed to engage the link or bar of a double cufi button.

3. A cufi protector comprisin' connected outer and inner flaps formed to bestride the outer end of a cuff, and having button-linkengaging means at the ends of the inner flap,

said flap having a central notch in its lower portion.

4. A cuii protector comprising connected outer and inner flaps, formed to best-ride the outer end of a cuiijthe inner flap having notches in its end portions formed to enga 'e the link or bar of a double cuff button, the ends of the neck portion of the-protector overhanging the said notches.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature, in presence ofv two-witnesses.

I IcHEL r vucnssovion.

Witnesses c. F. BitQwN, P. W. Y'EZZETTLN 

